Font Design · VD5J
Font Designs are Master Takase's unique designs. Often she will use her own style or a combination of fonts and, without a classification limit, create exactly the look she wants.
初志貫徹
shoshi kantetsu
Carry Your First Aim Through to the End
Carry the aim you first set through to the end, without giving in.
Master Takase creates this beautiful scroll when your order is placed. Personally preparing the ink and brushing your art that proudly bears her signature and seal. This is an original work of art.
Description
初志貫徹 (shoshi kantetsu): carrying the aim you first set through to the end.
初志 is the hope or aim first conceived, and 貫徹 is to carry it through, keeping on to the end without giving in. The デジタル大辞泉 gives 初志貫徹 as one of two examples under 貫徹. Whether it is for a graduate or for anyone holding to a goal is yours.
On 6 July 1891 the Imperial University's College of Science held a graduation for a short course. The graduates' representative closed their reply with a saying: when the spirit goes all the way, what cannot be done? Dull as they were, he said, they meant, unbending and unbowed, to carry their first aim through.
In a medical journal of late 1895 or soon after, fourteen doctors who had resigned their posts together held a great banquet. They were celebrating that they had carried their first aim through. In 1903 a middle-school ethics textbook defined endurance as the courage not to give in to hardship, and to carry your first aim through.
Japanese, of the Meiji period: the four characters shorten the phrase 初志を貫徹する, one of a family of 貫徹 phrases in the official and letter-writing style of the 1860s to 1880s, and the earliest use of them found for this history, in the National Diet Library's full text, is in a medical journal of late 1895 or soon after; 初志 alone is a classical Chinese word, used by Cao Zhi in 225.
We want you to be as happy with the meaning as you are with Master Takase's art. To learn more, visit Philology of 初志貫徹.
Delivery
Your scroll is brushed when you order it and completed within 1 to 3 business days. It ships by USPS Priority Mail from Master Takase's studio in Washington State, boxed and ready to hang, with a printed page giving the art's English, romaji and Japanese.
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About Our Scrolls
Master Japanese Calligrapher Eri Takase brushes your scroll by hand when you order it. Each scroll bears her red seal, 英利, and her signature.
The scrolls are 12 1/4" W × 43" H (31 × 109 cm) with woven damask borders and Japanese paper that are layered so the scroll hangs straight and will not warp over time. The scrolls themselves are made by a scroll maker in Gifu, Japan, and we have worked with them for over two decades.
Eri Takase was born and raised in Osaka, Japan, and holds the rank of Shihan, the highest rank in Japanese calligraphy, from the Bokuteki-kai and the Bunka-shodo. About Master Takase
